Jul 22, 2024 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Radical Self-Love
I sat at the foot of the bookcase, reading my yearbook from 7th grade. I didn’t have any messages from friends. (I don’t know why I didn’t get it signed that year.) But I had tons of messages about other people written in my own hand. I even had a...
Jul 15, 2024 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Freedom, Magick, Radical Self-Love
I still remember the list. I can see it in my mind—all the great and amazing things I still wanted to accomplish taking up the bottom half of the page in some throw-away notebook. (Funny considering I can’t remember if I wrote at the dining table in my condo or...
Jul 9, 2024 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Radical Self-Love
“As long as I can look myself in the mirror and know I did my best, then I’m good.” A client said this to me as we chatted her experience in a workplace that seems to run off dumpster fires and coffee. On the surface, it’s a great sentiment. I’m a firm believer in...
Jan 9, 2018 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Inspiration
“I’ve always wanted to go to Comic-Con,” I tweeted to her. She was a published author—with a THREE book deal. And someone I really looked up to. “But I’m worried that I’m not geek enough to fit in.” Didn’t matter that I loved cosplay, video games, Dungeons + Dragons,...
Jan 2, 2018 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Inspiration, The Writing Life
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! (I wish I was tech savvy enough to program a really cool virtual glitter cannon to fire when arrive here, but since I’m not, how about we just pretend?) *fires 18 glitter cannons* Welcome to the new year! You’ve been on my mind a lot over the past...
Jun 26, 2017 | Embolden Your Inner Writer
Not all characters end up as the person they started out to be. I suppose the same could be said of real people too. In the case of Fitz, who you’ll meet in my debut novel, Soul Reaper (more on that later), he started out as an older, surly cop who’d lost his...